On 3/1/21 7:31 AM, Andras Simon wrote:
2021-03-01 16:22 UTC+01:00, Jerry James
<loganjerry(a)gmail.com>:
> The NetworkManager-l2tp package depends on xl2tpd, which depends on
> kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko).
>
> $ dnf repoquery --whatprovides 'kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko)'
> kernel-debug-modules-extra-0:5.10.18-200.fc33.x86_64
> kernel-modules-extra-0:5.10.18-200.fc33.x86_64
>
> When you removed kernel-debug-modules-extra, your system did not have
> kernel-modules-extra installed, leaving it with no packages providing
> kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko). Therefore, xl2tpd had to be removed, which in turn
> required the removal of NetworkManager-l2tp.
>
> When you reinstalled NetworkManager-l2tp, its dependency on xl2tpd required
> something providing kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko) to be installed. Of the two packages
> that provide kmod(l2tp_ppp.ko), kernel-modules-extra has the shorter name,
> so it was installed to satisfy the dependency. (Yum, at least, used the
> "shorter name" rule. I'm just guessing that dnf does likewise.)
I missed 'kernel-modules-extra' among the packages that were installed.
Thanks!
Yes, that was an annoying bug from a while back. The debug packages got
pulled in instead of the non-debug one.